Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off. https://t.co/ILKrYxCeLB
trump is saying that the price of eggs went down 87%, which is a bald faced fucking lie. That would put a carton of eggs at $2.
He's saying the price of gas went down to $1.98 in three states yesterday, but the lowest it went down ANYWHERE was $2.75.
He's also saying MILLIONS of people died in the Ukraine war, the biggest estimate puts total deaths at 360K.
I can't believe anyone take this lying clown seriously.
"It is completely unacceptable, not only that it happened, but the absurd effort to cover it up": Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman on the Trump administration's Signal group chat controversy.
President Biden used to just go home on the weekends, and maga had fucking conniptions about it.
trump golfs every weekend and even some weekdays to a tune of $3M taxpayer dollars per trip, and MAGAts are quiet as church rats.
Stop whatever you're doing and watch John Larson. We are witnessing the Nazification of America and doing nothing about. I have never been so ashamed of my country and the people who were elected to represent us. 🥺👇
Trump inherited a good economy and could have left it alone, and even build upon it.
But instead he encouraged Elon to take a chainsaw to it resulting in a $4 TRILLION loss in the stock market, thousands fired and agencies destroyed.
After the most disastrous first month of any President in history, Trump will do everything he can to distract you tonight. He will try to convince you that culture war hot button issues are important. None of these things lower gas prices, improve job numbers, or help put food on the table. Don't take the bait.
“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin.”
Democratic Senator @ChrisMurphyCT blasts Trump’s meeting with Zelensky, calling it “an attempt to rewrite history in order to sign a deal with Putin that hands Putin Ukraine.”
It’s tempting to compare Republican Senators to the Prussian politicians who ushered in Hitler.
But it’s unfair.
The Prussian politicians were more responsible. They faced a country in crisis, with hyper-inflation, rising Communist influence, breakdown in social order.
Republican Senators have no excuse. America is the envy of every Western democracy. Low unemployment, low inflation, booming economy. But Republicans allowed Trump to break them like China dolls.
These weak men and women -many I know, quite a few I helped elect - claimed they were strong on national security. Now Russia’s choice runs American intelligence.
They claimed they cared about families. Now a former heroin junkie who opposes the mandatory vaccines that have ended polio, whooping cough, measles, is running American health services.
They claimed they care about law and order but supported pardoning violent cop attackers and an FBI head who took the Fifth in confirmation hearings.
They say they support traditional values but have turned over their budget duties to a guy with an unknown number of kids with names like “Exa Dark Siderael” and “Techno Mechanicus” with an unknown number of women he didn’t marry, a man with a well reported recreational drug habit and appears to have shown up at a presidential inaugural stoned out of his mind.
Why did they surrender their Constitutional responsibilities to please a felon? It’s not complicated or novel. They are weak men and women with a desperate need to be accepted.
We had a Greatest Generation and now we have the Worst Generation of Republicans. They deserve no respect, only shame and scorn.
It was all a lie.